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  1. seoulbrother: Hold on, Hurtling’s got this. hurtling: yhf: The advent of reality television marks the approximate point when I started believing that popular culture was the sole casualty of Y2K. […] When we can almost instantaneously satisfy nearly any cultural craving with the press of a button or the click of a mouse, we are never left to want for something more substantial. To put it another way: When you can have dessert now, why bother with dinner? That said, there seems to be a growing perception that disposable culture and its attendant pack of fame-whores are entirely new phenomena that sprang up virtually overnight, and this line of thinking — while seductively self-affirming — is wrong. Read the rest here.

    seoulbrother:

    Hold on, Hurtling’s got this.

    hurtling:

    yhf:

    The advent of reality television marks the approximate point when I started believing that popular culture was the sole casualty of Y2K.

    […]

    When we can almost instantaneously satisfy nearly any cultural craving with the press of a button or the click of a mouse, we are never left to want for something more substantial. To put it another way: When you can have dessert now, why bother with dinner?

    That said, there seems to be a growing perception that disposable culture and its attendant pack of fame-whores are entirely new phenomena that sprang up virtually overnight, and this line of thinking — while seductively self-affirming — is wrong.

    Read the rest here.

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      Not only did we have throwaway culture in the 20th century (anyone remember the Guilty Pleasures column in Film Comment...
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